[chef] RE: Force 'main' IP on multi-homed Chef nodes

[Kevin Keane Subscription < >]

Title: RE: [chef] Force 'main' IP on multi-homed Chef nodes

Just to add to this: the same problem exists with IPv6 even on a single interface (at least it did last time I checked, which was a number of versions ago), especially with privacy extensions enabled.

To be fair, it is a hard problem to solve.

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-----Original message-----
From: Vauter, George < >
Sent: Wednesday 6th May 2015 17:27
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Subject: [chef] Force 'main' IP on multi-homed Chef nodes

Has anyone found a straightforward way to force Ohai to use a specific interface’s IP address as the “main” ip address for the Chef node?  All our server’s are multi-homed (have 2-3 interfaces).  Chef is currently picking the IP of an interface that should not be considered the main interface for the node.  From what I found so far, Ohai references the order of the routes to determine which interface IP to select…?

Thanks,
George